He, an extraordinary 15th-century Imperial fleet commander who completed seven long ocean voyages, including beyond the Indian subcontinent, reached the Horn of Africa and what is now Tanzania and Kenya.
In 1960, Piccard's father, Jacques, descended seven miles beneath the Pacific Ocean in another pressurized module to set a deep-dive record that has been matched only twice.
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This ocean is the key to the seven seas in the 21st century.
Cameron became the first man to complete a solo dive to the Challenger Deep, which is seven miles beneath the surface of the Pacific Ocean.
Since independence in 1976, per capita output in this Indian Ocean archipelago has expanded to roughly seven times the pre-independence, near-subsistence level, moving the island into the upper-middle income group of countries.
This island prison sits just seven tantalizing miles off beautiful Cape Town in the cold green Atlantic Ocean.
Such is the demand for natural gas around Fort McMurray that a consortium of companies, including Shell Canada and Imperial Oil, has proposed building a seven-hundred-and-fifty-mile pipeline from the Arctic Ocean through the largely undisturbed wilderness of the Mackenzie River Valley and down into northern Alberta.
That assessment was reinforced by a 2009 Northrop Grumman study that found seven Littoral Combat Ships could perform anti-piracy patrols in the Western Indian Ocean more efficiently than 20 conventional warships for a quarter of the cost.
The billionaires are bankrolling expeditions to reach the deepest place in the ocean, a spot called the Challenger Deep that lies at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, seven miles below the surface of the South Pacific.
This Five-Star resort is tucked away on seven oceanfront acres on the southern tip of Palm Beach Island, and the Ritz Kids AquaNuts facility is decidedly ocean-inspired the ceiling is blue and the room is decked out with fish nets, crab and fish rugs and has large murals of underwater scenes on the wall.
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To condense his subject into manageable chunks, Mr Winchester uses Shakespeare's seven ages of man as a structure: the infant is a metaphor for man's first interest in the ocean, the schoolboy represents its exploration, and so on.
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